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Biscuit Barrel ID : Sowerby 2477 DURHAM
sueholm:
Hi there...I have spent hours and hours trying to identify my biscuit barrel, which I THINK is Sowerby, but it has no mark and I cannot confirm it. Reason for thinking it is sowerby is that one Grandma ( I am 59) was from Gateshead, and the other Grandma was from Newcastle. One of these Grandmas passed on my biscuit barrel to my mother and now to me. The other thing tho, is that one grandmother's maiden name was Davidson. I will put a link here to my item, in the hopes that someone can put me out of my misery!
http://www.rubylane.com/shops/coldwater/item/00053
Thank you, Susan
Bernard C:
Susan,
I have seen this pattern on other items of table glass. Unfortunately I have not been able to attribute this design with certainty to any particular glassworks. Greener made a similar pattern with gadrooning in between the diamond shaped panels of hobnails - Rd No. 81160, see illustration in Thompson p14.
Don't forget that after the golden 1870s and '80s, Sowerby, Davidson, Greener and Moore faced stiff competion from Manchester, Europe and America. And they sold this foreign glass on Tyneside! Possibly even to your Grannies.
Regards, Bernard C.
Glen:
Hi Susan - your biscuit barrel is Sowerby's pattern number 2477 - and was part of their "DURHAM" suite. They made a range of shapes in "Durham" as well as the biscuit barrel: these include a boat, a honey, sugar & creamer and a couple of vases. The "Durham" suite was first introduced (I believe) in the 1930s but was still being produced through the 1950s.
Glen
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Bernard C:
Glen,
It helps to look in the right place, doesn't it? I am surprised that it is early to mid '30s, just before 2505 Lily & Iris (Sowerby pattern numbers are sequential). It looks late Victorian.
Bernard C
Anonymous:
Hi Bernard
The earliest listing I can find this pattern in is the 1933, "Illustrated List No 30". That doesn't mean that it wasn't in earlier lists, but it certainly isn't shown in any that I own. Its pattern number 2477 was not actually noted in that listing - it was instead described as the "Durham Suite". (In the same catalog is the 2487 biscuit jar in the pattern suite "Manchester". Likewise, its number was not shown...only the suite name).
Glen
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